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2021 Orange County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Orange County, VA went without power for an average of 3.7 hours, a total of 68K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.7 hours). That ranks 95th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 1621st of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Orange County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 17, 2021 18:00 | July 18, 2021 19:30 | 1d 1h | 4,050 | 17K |
| 2 | August 2, 2021 23:30 | August 3, 2021 00:30 | 1h | 2,011 | 2,011 |
| 3 | August 29, 2021 00:45 | August 29, 2021 19:30 | 18h 45m | 1,987 | 6,048 |
| 4 | August 13, 2021 19:00 | August 15, 2021 01:30 | 1d 6h | 1,471 | 4,283 |
| 5 | September 1, 2021 04:45 | September 2, 2021 06:00 | 1d 1h | 1,271 | 1,948 |
| 6 | May 4, 2021 19:00 | May 5, 2021 03:30 | 8h 30m | 1,265 | 1,886 |
| 7 | July 21, 2021 20:30 | July 22, 2021 02:45 | 6h 15m | 963 | 1,948 |
| 8 | April 25, 2021 19:45 | April 25, 2021 21:15 | 1h 30m | 958 | 1,437 |
| 9 | May 6, 2021 17:45 | May 6, 2021 19:15 | 1h 30m | 946 | 880 |
| 10 | August 10, 2021 18:00 | August 12, 2021 17:00 | 1d 23h | 898 | 2,799 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 48 reached 100+ customers, 6 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Orange County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rappahannock Electric Coop | 2021 | 7.6 hrs | 2.14 | 2.7 hrs | 1.54 |
| Central Virginia Electric Coop | 2021 | 7.0 hrs | 3.44 | 4.2 hrs | 2.89 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 97% of Virginia's customers in 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 18,484 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Orange County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Orange County, VA annual power outage report, 2021, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2021/virginia/orange-county